Scope and Content
Lease and release, release only, assignment under direction of Court of Chancery (24 folios).
1. Sophia, Charlotte, Caroline and Louisa Townsend, spinsters, daughters of Thomas Townsend, Clifton (Gloucestershire), William Moore Newnham, Bassingham (Lincolnshire), clerk, Susannah his wife, daughter of Thomas Townsend, Matthew Munro, Horsk House, Leamington (Hampshire), esquire, a grandson of Thomas Townsend.
2. John Ross, late of Island of Granada, now of Aberdeen, esquire, Andrew Loughman, Coleman Street, City of London, esquire, Executors of Thomas Townsend (deceased) (surviving devisee in trust and executor of Susanna Louisa Baroness St John)
3. Sir William Edward Rouse Boughton, Downton Hall (Shropshire) Baronet, Sir Robert Heron, Staxton (Lincolnshire) Baronet.
4. Bridgeman Hewitson and John Stokes, Granada, attornies. }
Reciting: will of Susanna Louisa Baroness St John, 26 July 1804 (died 1805), bequeathing her one-third share in plantations and negroes in Granada (bequeathed by her father Peter Simond) to Richard Henry Bennett and Thomas Townsend in trust to be sold for payment of debts and legacies, residue to be invested to provide: interest on £2,000 for life for son St Andrew St John (since deceased) and heirs, interest on sums of £2,500 each for life for son George St John (since deceased) and heirs, daughter Matilda wife of William Villiers Villiers and heirs, daughter Elizabeth Barbara wife of Doctor Vaughan and heirs, granddaughter Charlotte Yates and heirs, residue to son St Andrew.
Decree in Chancery, 24 June 1826, and appointment of (3) as new trustees.
Conveyance by (1 and 2) to (3): plantations and slaves in Island of Granada, late of Baroness St John.
Schedule (19 folios) giving (i) Lists of African and Creole slaves by name, with supposed ages, conspicuous marks, remarks.
(ii) Annual returns, 1822-24, showing increase and decrease of slaves, deaths certified.
The estates in 1824 were:
Requin estate (St. David): 97 male slaves, 106 female.
Crochu estate (St. David) : 114 males, 99 females.
Simon estate (St. Andrew): 62 males, 79 females.
Soubise estate (St. Andrew): 67 males, 74 females.
Beausejour estate (St. George): 87 males, 86 females.
Tempe estate (St. George): 69 males, 75 females.
Sagesse estate (St. David): 85 males, 106 females.
Certificates of Anthony Brown, Lord Mayor of London, James Milne, Chief Magistrate of Aberdeen and John Haythorne, Mayor of Bristol, under Act of 5 George II ‘for the more easy recovery of Debts in His Majesty’s Plantations and Colonies in America’, as to three affidavits of witnesses to signatures of the parties.